Please advise why PRTG is generating SMB, SAMBA and other traffic beside ICMP as I only set ping to WAN ip
PRTG is generating traffic beside SNMP
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Hi there,
This traffic is generated by the following PRTG functions:
- Auto-Discovery (https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/auto_discovery)
- Similar Sensor Detection (https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/similar_sensors)
- System information (https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/system_information)
Kind regards,
Andreas Günther
Tech Support, Paessler AG
support@paessler.com
Sep, 2019 - Permalink